From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Feb 13 12:37:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3729A3EB0 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 12:37:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id VAA17245 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 21:25:29 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA25709 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:27:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:27:19 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: creating bootable cd for alpha Message-ID: <20000213202719.B25640@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <20000213173929.A15547@yedi.iaf.nl> <20000213094958.E91242@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000213094958.E91242@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@NUXI.com on Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 09:49:58AM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD yedi.iaf.nl 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 09:49:58AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 05:39:29PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > What I'm looking is the right magical commands to make such a cd. I assume > > Alpha uses a bootable ufs cd instead of RockRidge. > > Not quite -- RockRidge is still useful (especially for Disc 2). Rather > you do not specify a boot image as you would on the i386. Yep, I figured that one out. The whole concept of Torito is a bit alien to Alpha. > setcdboot alpha-boot.iso /boot/cdboot > setcdboot alpha-liveFS.iso /boot/cdboot Right, thanks. I'll post results for other systems once I've tested them -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message